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One of the few polls I've started where I don't carry a definitive "right" answer (although I suspect this will be near unanimous). On my way in to work after lunch I noticed how many of the cars in the company parking lot had something hanging from their rearview mirror. From air fresheners, to tassels, to crosses, to a mini disco ball. I had my HS tassel hanging from my first car's rear view for a few years until I realized that I was instinctively lifting up my hand to prevent it from swinging into my view on right turns. I also had big fuzzy dice that hung proudly like testicles.

I used to have graduation tassels, air fresheners, dream catchers, pins, lanyards, a whole ton of rattley things that would swing when rounding corners. Nowadays I have reduced to just one string of beads and a pin. I got a new car see and started over.

Finally, a poll that has an answer I can unambiguously support! NO!!!!

I get distracted by all the crapola hanging from other people's mirrors while driving behind them. Crystals, especially, but just about anything that moves catches the eye (it's automatic) and is thus a distraction for the driver. And nowadays drivers don't need any more distractions of any kind.

I NEVER drive around with a parking pass on my mirror. I hang it when I need it, and put it away when I don't. They last a lot longer for me that way, since here in Texas the sun tends to destroy anything that is exposed to the sun a few inches behind a nice chunk of glass.

A cross etc on a rearview is less of a "HEY LOOK I'M CHRISTIAN EVERYBODEEE" and more of a "Please Jesus/Mary/St Christopher, keep me safe from all the crazy bad drivers out there." A patchouli air freshener also helps enhance the plea. Mardigras beads have no effect, except to distract passersby from seeing the mess in your car. Fuzzy dice imply that you'll take your chances on your own.

That lime green clashes with the sacred heart. A nice mauve or tan would be better.

A cross etc on a rearview is less of a "HEY LOOK I'M CHRISTIAN EVERYBODEEE" and more of a "Please Jesus/Mary/St Christopher, keep me safe from all the crazy bad drivers out there." A patchouli air freshener also helps enhance the plea. Mardigras beads have no effect, except to distract passersby from seeing the mess in your car. Fuzzy dice imply that you'll take your chances on your own.

That lime green clashes with the sacred heart. A nice mauve or tan would be better.

OK, I changed the pic.

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church" Saint Tertullian, 197 AD